Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilience – w/ Kidada Williams and Kellie Carter Jackson
Teaching Hard History
Learning for Justice
4.2 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Black American experiences during Jim Crow were deeply affected by the ever-present threat of lynching and other forms of racist violence. Historian Kidada Williams amplifies perspectives from Black families, telling stories of lynching victims obscured by white newspapers. She and Kellie Carter Jackson urge educators to confront the role of this violence in American history, how major institutions stood idly by, and how Black Americans fought for justice.
** Content Advisory: This episode contains graphic descriptions of racial violence, and we discuss strategies for sharing this difficult content with your students. **
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| 0:00.0 | You may not be surprised to hear this. |
| 0:03.1 | I generally don't pay attention to NASCAR. |
| 0:05.8 | But my ears perked up recently when I heard this on NPR. |
| 0:09.7 | Rain disrupted a NASCAR playoff race on Monday, |
| 0:13.8 | but it did not dampen the celebration of Bubba Wallace |
| 0:16.6 | when he was declared the winner of the NASCAR Cup series. |
| 0:21.4 | Bubba Wallace became only the second when he was declared the winner of the NASCAR Cup Series. No way! No way! |
| 0:28.1 | Bubba Wallace became only the second black driver to win at NASCAR's top level following Wendell Scott in 1963. |
| 0:32.4 | Bubba Wallace first entered my consciousness in 2020. |
| 0:36.1 | Like other non-NASCAR fans, |
| 0:38.1 | I learned his name when he publicly urged the organization |
| 0:40.8 | to ban the display of Confederate flags at their events. |
| 0:44.3 | When Wallace told NASCAR to, quote, |
| 0:46.7 | get them out of here, |
| 0:48.0 | he was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. |
| 0:51.1 | And to my surprise, |
| 0:52.7 | NASCAR responded within days by prohibiting the Confederate |
| 0:56.0 | flag at their events. Saying it runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and |
| 1:01.6 | inclusive environment. Within weeks, Bubba Wallace was back in the news. And again, people like me |
| 1:08.3 | were paying attention. But this time, the news was nothing to be celebrated. |
| 1:12.6 | The morning before a race at Talladega, |
| 1:15.6 | Wallace's crew discovered a noose in their garage. |
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